¹Zvino shure kwaizvozvo, kutsamwa kwamambo Ahashivheroshi kwakati kwanyarara, akarangarira Vhashiti nezvaakaita, nechirevo chakatemwa pamusoro pake.

¹After these things, when the wrath of king Ahasuerus was appeased, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed against her.

²Ipapo varanda vamambo vaimubatira, vakati, Mambo ngaatsvakirwe mhandara dzakanaka;

²Then said the king's servants that ministered unto him, Let there be fair young virgins sought for the king:

³mambo ngaaise vatariri pamativi ose oushe hwake, vaunganidze mhandara dzose dzakanaka paShushani nhare yamambo, paimba yavakadzi, vachengetwe naHegai muranda wamambo, mutariri wavakadzi; vapiwewo zvavangazvinatsa nazvo.

³And let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, that they may gather together all the fair young virgins unto Shushan the palace, to the house of the women, unto the custody of Hege the king's chamberlain, keeper of the women; and let their things for purification be given them:

⁴Zvino musikana unofarirwa namambo ngaave vahosi panzvimbo yaVhashiti. Izvozvo zvikafadza mambo, akaita saizvozvo.

⁴And let the maiden which pleaseth the king be queen instead of Vashti. And the thing pleased the king; and he did so.

⁵Zvino paShushani panhare yamambo pakanga panomuJudha, ainzi Modhekai, mwanakomana waJairi, mwanakomana waShimei, mwanakomana waKishi, muBhenjamini,

⁵Now in Shushan the palace there was a certain Jew, whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite;

⁶akanga atapwa Jerusaremu, pamwechete navatapwa vakanga vatapwa naJekonia mambo waJudha, wakange atapwa naNebhukadhinezari mambo weBhabhironi.

⁶Who had been carried away from Jerusalem with the captivity which had been carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away.

⁷Iye akanga arera Hadhasha, ndiye Esiteri, mukunda wababamunini wake; nekuti akanga asina baba namai; zvino musikana uyu akanga akanaka paumiro hwake napachiso chake; pakufa kwababa vake namai vake Modhekai ndokumutora, akamuita mukunda wake.

⁷And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.

⁸Zvino murayiro wamambo nechirevo chake zvakati zvanzwikwa, vasikana vazhinji vakaunganidzwa paShushani nhare yamambo, pavaichengetwa naHegai, Esiteri akatorwawo, akaiswa mumba mamambo, akachengetwa naHegai mutariri wavakadzi.

⁸So it came to pass, when the king's commandment and his decree was heard, and when many maidens were gathered together unto Shushan the palace, to the custody of Hegai, that Esther was brought also unto the king's house, to the custody of Hegai, keeper of the women.

⁹Musikana uyu akamufadza, akanzwirwa tsitsi naye, akachimbidzika kumupa zvaangazvinatsa nazvo, nemigove yake yezvokudya uye vasikana vanomwe vaakafanira kupiwa, vaibva paimba yamambo; akamuisa iye navasikana vake pakanga pakaisvonaka paimba yavakadzi.

⁹And the maiden pleased him, and she obtained kindness of him; and he speedily gave her her things for purification, with such things as belonged to her, and seven maidens, which were meet to be given her, out of the king's house: and he preferred her and her maids unto the best place of the house of the women.

¹⁰Asi Esiteri akanga asina kuvazivisa rudzi rwake nehama dzake, nekuti Modhekai akanga amuraira, kuti arege kuvazivisa izvozvo.

¹⁰Esther had not shewed her people nor her kindred: for Mordecai had charged her that she should not shew it.

¹¹Zvino Modhekai aifamba pamberi poruvanze rweimba yavakadzi mazuva ose, agoziva kuti Esiteri akadini, uye kuti vachaitei naye.

¹¹And Mordecai walked every day before the court of the women's house, to know how Esther did, and what should become of her.

¹²Zvino dzoro romusikana mumwe nomumwe rakati richisvika kupinda kuna mambo Ahashivheroshi, kana aitirwa zvose nomurayiro wavakadzi mwedzi ine gumi nemiviri (nokuti mazuva okunatswa kwavo akapera kudai: mwedzi mitanhatu vachizora mafuta emura, mwedzi mitanhatu zvinonhuhwira, uye zvimwe zvinhu zvokunatsa vakadzi nazvo,)

¹²Now when every maid's turn was come to go in to king Ahasuerus, after that she had been twelve months, according to the manner of the women, (for so were the days of their purifications accomplished, to wit, six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet odours, and with other things for the purifying of the women;)

¹³zvino musikana akapinda nomutowo akadaro kuna mambo, uye chinhu chipi nechipi chaaida aichipiwa, kuti abude nacho paimba yavakadzi, apinde mumba mamambo.

¹³Then thus came every maiden unto the king; whatsoever she desired was given her to go with her out of the house of the women unto the king's house.

¹⁴Aienda madekwana, ndokudzokera mangwana kuimba yechipiri yavakadzi, paaichengetwa naShaashigazi, muranda wamambo, aichengeta varongo; haazaipindazve kuna mambo, asi kana achinge afarirwa namambo, akadamwa nezita rake.

¹⁴In the evening she went, and on the morrow she returned into the second house of the women, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king's chamberlain, which kept the concubines: she came in unto the king no more, except the king delighted in her, and that she were called by name.

¹⁵Zvino dzoro raEsiteri mukunda waAbhihairi, babamunini vaModhekai, akanga amutora akamuita mukunda wake, rakati richisvika rokupinda kuna mambo, haana kukumbira chinhu asi izvochetezvakanga zvarairwa naHegai muranda wamambo, mutariri wavakadzi. Zvino Esiteri akanzwirwa tsitsi navose vaimuona.

¹⁵Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, was come to go in unto the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king's chamberlain, the keeper of the women, appointed. And Esther obtained favour in the sight of all them that looked upon her.

¹⁶Naizvozvo Esiteri akaiswa kuna mambo Ahashivheroshi muimba yake youshe nomwedzi wegumi, ndiwo mwedzi weTebheti, pagore rechinomwe rokubata kwake ushe.

¹⁶So Esther was taken unto king Ahasuerus into his house royal in the tenth month, which is the month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.

¹⁷Mambo akada Esiteri kupfuura vamwe vakadzi vose, akanzwira tsitsi nounyoro naye kupfuura dzimwe mhandara dzose; naizvozvo akaisa korona youhosi pamusoro wake, akamuita vahosi panzvimbo yaVhashiti.

¹⁷And the king loved Esther above all the women, and she obtained grace and favour in his sight more than all the virgins; so that he set the royal crown upon her head, and made her queen instead of Vashti.

¹⁸Ipapo mambo akaitira machinda ake ose navaranda vake vose mutambo mukuru, uri mutambo waEsiteri; akaraira zororo pamativi enyika, akagovera zvipo, mambo asinganyimi napaduku.

¹⁸Then the king made a great feast unto all his princes and his servants, even Esther's feast; and he made a release to the provinces, and gave gifts, according to the state of the king.

¹⁹Zvino pakuunganidzwa kwemhandara rwechipiri, Modhekai akanga agere pasuwo ramambo.

¹⁹And when the virgins were gathered together the second time, then Mordecai sat in the king's gate.

²⁰Esiteri akanga achigere kuvazivisa hama dzake kana rudzi rwake, sezvaakarairwa naModhekai; nekuti Esiteri akateerera murayiro waModhekai, sezvaaisiita acharerwa naye.

²⁰Esther had not yet shewed her kindred nor her people; as Mordecai had charged her: for Esther did the commandment of Mordecai, like as when she was brought up with him.

²¹zvino pamazuva iwayo Modhikai agere pasuwo ramambo, varanda vaviri vamambo, Bhigitani naTereshi, pakati pavarindi vomukova, vakatsamwa vakatsvaka kuuraya mambo Ahashivheroshi.

²¹In those days, while Mordecai sat in the king's gate, two of the king's chamberlains, Bigthan and Teresh, of those which kept the door, were wroth, and sought to lay hands on the king Ahasuerus.

²²Chinhu icho chikazikamwa naModhekai, iye ndokuzivisa vahosi Esiteri, Esiteri akandoudza mambo nezita raModhekai.

²²And the thing was known to Mordecai, who told it unto Esther the queen; and Esther certified the king thereof in Mordecai's name.

²³Zvino vakati vachinzvera chinhu icho, vakawana kuti zvirokwazvo, vose vari vaviri vakasungirirwa pamuti; zvikanyorwa mubhuku yaMakoronike pamberi pamambo.

²³And when inquisition was made of the matter, it was found out; therefore they were both hanged on a tree: and it was written in the book of the chronicles before the king.